The mechanics of passion

SYMPTOMS OF PASSAGE

Here then is the man outside our people, outside our humanity.He is continually starving, nothing belongs to him but the instant,the prolonged instant of torture . . . He always has only one thing:his suffering, but there is nothing on the entire face of the earththat could serve as a remedy for him, there is no ground on whichto plant his two feet, no support for his two hands to grasp, andthus there is so much less for him than there is for the music-halltrapeze artist who is at least hanging by a thread.

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Bio-experiments, bio-life, biomechanics, bio-money, bio-banks, biohazard, bio-terror, bio-government, bio-real-time, bio-communication, bio-genetics, bio-politics, bio-history, bioscience, bio-presence. The replica, the duplicate, the clone, the non-organic, DNA, RNA, the helix, the coaxial, the bio-cell, the molecular, the fact that we ‘re human, demolish the science of metamorphosis, progress, the meat is not murder, is it meat or machine? Global economies, social systems, immigration patterns, information exchanges, mobile and wireless communications, stock exchange, computer-analysis, population analysis, micro chip, nano-chip, macro compute, devices of control, demolish ethics, exterminate agony, delete the presence of this world, codes, passwords, data, files, numbers, binary, beton arme, structures, post structures, meta-mo-struct, abstraction, regardless ideology and philosophy, the improper and the proper use of what we call life, pull for emergency EXIT, erase the terror, the great terror of all mankind, this is the drama of the human, it is a drama that is by turns tragic and absurdist. This drama, producing dadaist mammals, extra ears, pigs with wings, activist crops, and 'fuzzy biological sabotage'. Biological life: microbes, epidemics, endosymbiosis, parasitism, swarms, packs, flocks, a-life, genetic algorithms, bio-pathways, smart dust, smartbombs, netwars -- there is a whole bestiary that asks us to think the life-multiplicity relation. What is life? Life is X. Whatever X happens to be, eidos, mechanism, life-force, selection, code. Life is...resistance... Life is X…Life is…resistance... Resistance is to erase…

Erase memory, scratch disk is full, data flow inefficient, gigabyte, terabyte, the disk is full, names, enemies, friends, affiliates, numbers, files, libraries, words, pictures, sounds, jpgs, wavs, docs, certificates of birth and death, data entries, you are a number mister, the disc is full, optical discs, mini discs, floppy discs, magnetic discs, cd roms, dvd roms, the disc is full, erase data permanently, decimal, binary, codes, passwords and passports, access denied, no available space, processors, predecessors, how to install, Motorola, Intel, technologies of suppression, the disc is full, erase memory, proceed, exceed, you are a machine programmed to program in real time, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, MHz, GHz, THz, the politics of speed, the aesthetics of disappearance, you are a tape recorder set to record and play back in real time, the disc is full, erase memory, don’t think about it, forget about it, ease memory, there is nothing to remember, erase memory, erase history, there is nothing left to memorize, erase memory, erase, the disc is full.

The disk is full, words on words, sounds on sounds, pictures over other pictures. This is the Noise War. Push the button. Drop silence.